Here is the fearsome Tuxie-taurus, stalking the Wild Tyrannosaurus
Mama loves dinosaurs…go figure. But the bloody jaws in those animated shots of prehistoric creatures in Fantasia gave her delightful nightmares for years! Of course after that she saw Fantasia about a gazillion times, little kids being fascinated by blood and gore and things torn limb from limb.
(Pity she missed me with the lizard some a few weeks ago, haha.)
Well, speaking of which (dinosaurs, not mice), mama just got an email from her author friend, Jane Louise Curry, writer of the Abaloc series of books for young adults, and she sent a lovely video of the roaring dinosaur at the Museum of Natural History in London. What’s wonderful are the screams of little kids when the dino really lets loose! Mama couldn’t insert Jane’s video but Jane has a new blog (see her website mentioned above) and will do it herself soon. Here is what she says about her favourite little animatronic beast:
He/she/it is definitely “a great moving model” – – and you can stand there staring into the case and, not knowing he is animatronic, having to tell yourself that he’s not the real thing. You know he’s not, but your eyes are not what’s telling you that. It may have looked more real to me because it wasn’t switched on– the movement of its arm is a wee trifle too jerky a twitch, but the breathing and the blink are masterfully restrained. The Museum’s older animatronic dinosaurs are much less sophisticated, but the Mama Tyrannosaurus is an horrific hoot!
Mama found this on Youtube for your frightening pleasure:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JKkFdk2zDw
I would NOT wish to be anywhere near this dude when he was alive and kicking, that’s for sure.
But there is something about dinosaurs that still tickles mama pink, and all the little anthros in the family. Mama’s art editor at The New Yorker years ago wrote a great children’s book on the subject called “Dinah’s Egg”, which was about the delightful and fraught life of a dinosaur egg about to hatch.
Personally, I love the vegetarian ones, if you get my drift…
Practice for the dinosaur hunt!
Ooooooo! Is that lunch you’re ready to hunt???
YES, a naked lunch at that! But do I hunt? No way. I just like cacacacacaca-ing at that birdie to give him pause. Make that paws.
Wow! We just wrapped up 6 episodes of The Loch (as in the monster!) – but it never showed, thank goodness!! Those big ones are SCARY!!! But i love watching the little ones (minisaurs?) climb walls! BRAVO for your blog award – I Ching of the blogosphere!!! Yippee – we will celebrate soon. Today, back to the music festival and no AC. Sometimes I wonder about our anthros….
Hey, Mya, you are getting a musical education that most doggies NEVER could imagine…maybe Chopin had a doggy? Brahams? Wagner? Who knows. Einstein had a cat, haha.
I think you’re right, Loulou, to stick with the vegetarian type egg. I think I will, too. I like to think that our sabertooth ancestor would’ve put up a good fight against some of the giant reptilian sorts. Tee hee hee! Say, CONCATULATIONS for your bloggie being listed on top 15 of 2017. Je t’aime!
Hey, what are you saying? It was listed as WHAT??? Why don’t I know these things? Well, thank you for alerting me so that I can thank someone…I think. I mean, if I find out who that is.
Fascinating ! And you know, not all of the modern-day dinos are vegans – since they eat bugs and worms and some eat bigger items. I bet your Mom read “All About Dinosaurs” by Roy Chapman Andrews when she was a kid too. Surprising how much new info comes up about old pre-history every year !
That sounds familiar to mama and she’s looking into her childhood to see if it will emerge…the memory of the book that is, not her entire childhood. But seriously, folk, mama had a great childhood, Texas-style, with watermelon seed contests, fried chicken (slurp), good manners, you know, that sort of thing, saying ‘mam’ and ‘sir’ to elders…some kids are lucky.